A Wideband Noise and Harmonic Distortion Canceling Low-Noise Amplifier for High-Frequency Ultrasound Transducers

Yuxuan Tang1, Yulang Feng1, He Hu2

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA.

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